Adrian EisenhowerPainter

Education: Savannah College of Art + Design

Adrian teaches drawing and painting at the Cleveland School of the Arts and is a teaching fellow at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In addition, he is also the founder of Walton Avenue Atelier, a space committed to studying the practice of Classical methods in the visual arts.

Susan Gallagherceramic artist

Education: Cleveland Institute of Art

Susan Gallagher has been a ceramic artist for 45 years. She has also been an Ohio Arts Council Artist in Residence for ten years and is the former Director of the Ceramics Department at the Beck Center for the Arts.

Lou GrassoIllustrator + Designer + Painter

Lou’s experience in the illustration and design field spans five decades working as an illustrator and art director. He is also still active in the art community as a charter member of the Northern Ohio’s Illustrator Society.

Amy HalkoCeramic Artist

Education: Bowling Green State University + Ohio State University

Amy has taught numerous workshops throughout the US, was a visiting artist at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China and a resident artist at The Archie Bray Foundation. Her work is in several collections and is shown nationally.

George KozmonPainter

George is best known for his monumental paintings and is an internationally collected artist. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Endowment For The Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and four Ohio Arts Council Grants.

Dino MassaroniPainter

Dino’s paintings have been awarded numerous competitive prizes in local, regional and national exhibitions. His portraits, landscapes and still life compositions are also included in private collections internationally. In addition to teaching at Orange Art Center Massaroni also teaches at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center.

Linda MerchantPainter

Education: Youngstown State University + National University

Linda has been painting for as long as she can remember. As a child, she was inspired by the detailed wildlife artwork of Robert Bateman, Carl Brenders, and others. Primarily self-taught, she pursues a realistic approach to drawing and painting, creating detail in meticulous layers. She is currently visual arts faculty at the Willoughby Fine Arts Association, Beck Center, and Orange Art Center.

Stephanie Miller-DavisCeramic Artist

Education: Ohio State University + Cleveland State University

Stephanie has taught elementary art in the Cleveland and East Cleveland public schools. In recent years, she has exhibited her work at in many galleries around the area. She has participated in numerous sales and art festivals including Art by the Falls in Chagrin Falls and Cain Park Arts Festival in Cleveland Heights.

Annie PetersPainter

Education: Akron University + Kent State University

Annie has taught art at Grand Valley High School in Orwell, OH for more than 40 years. While there she was awarded Teacher of the Year three times, and the Ruritans Outstanding Teacher Award. Peters has also exhibited her work in museums, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Southern Ohio Museum, as well as national and regional shows.

Bob RaackPainter

Bob has over 40 years of experience teaching at the university level: Cooper School of Art, the University of Akron, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and Youngstown State University. He recently retired to dedicate full time to his own painting in his art studio in the Shore Cultural Center in Euclid.

Debra RosenJewerly Designer + Fabricator

Debra Rosen is an accomplished designer, fabricator, and educator with over twenty years of experience creating jewelry art. Rosen has taught at the Orange Art Center since 2004, and focuses on giving her students a fundamental foundation upon which to develop their own visual language.

John A sargent IIIpainter

Education: Ohio State

John A Sargent III is a native Clevelander and professional artist since 1988 graduating with his MFA in painting from Ohio State in 1988. He has had the privilege of teaching at The Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo. He is a board member of the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve and serves on the Gallery Committee at Valley Arts Center.

Jenn SzalkowskiFused Glass Artist

Education: Kent State University

The act of creating something with your own two hands was something that was exhilarating and inspirational to Jenn. Still actively exhibiting her work, Szalkowski’s work has been featured in various local art shows at several shops and galleries throughout Northeast Ohio.

Josh UsmaniIllustrator + Writer

Education: Cleveland State University

In addition to being Cleveland Scene Magazine’s Visual Arts Editor from 2014 to 2017, he has been teaching kids cartooning classes since 2013 in various institutions around the region. His own artwork has been featured in more than 100 group exhibitions, as well as several solo shows, and is represented locally by Tregoning & Company.

Guy-VincentMultimedia Artist

Guy-Vincent is an internationally exhibited and collected interdisciplinary artist. His art practice has investigated a great variety of modes of expression including: traditional media, concept-based performative endeavors, moving images and photography. His artwork is represented in numerous public and private collections.